or to build. one billion dollars. or growth of. one or cheap. news from today and to the week israel and gaza settle into an uneasy cease fire and after eight days of air strikes and rocket attacks the long term peace deal is yet to be agreed upon. crowds of protesters face tear gas in cairo as they marched out angry at the islamic president for granting itself sweeping new powers. e.u. leaders leave brussels with no decision on their trillion euro common spending but a new round of the budget battle moves to the chair. meanwhile with financial troubles taking their toll on the european regions its separatist feelings are dominating the local elections and catalonia.

news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching the weekly here on our with me lucy tough enough the ceasefire in gaza that ended an eight day israeli offensive remains intact despite the details of a lasting peace deal still having yet to be negotiated more than one hundred sixty palestinians were killed in the assault while hamas rocket attacks killed six israeli it's the largest closely are reports many israelis are disappointed with the outcome of the operation and they see the truce as a victory for hamas. alyssa and rachel are packing for the us a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave to spend very anxious living on the air like knowing that at any moment this sounds like blasphemy after

going to a bomb shelter and like it's being scared by public transportation and staff. the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think it finished it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued we could have achieved a. better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure oh and the organization of hamas. would probably. keep us from further rocket attacks in the future i hope. the government has

good reason to finish it now many military experts and commentators believe the ceasefire was a strategic victory for hamas for two hours after officially came into force rocket fire from gaza continued it seems that the israeli government has given in to some of the demands of hamas and has made an agreement with a terror organization i think a lot of our lives have been crossed among the disappointed i viewed friedman a lone protester on television campus he's frustrated his army didn't into gaza and was one of the first to call his officer to volunteer it's important for our safety for our. so civilians safety and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared to die for my country any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of the masses infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels by believe that the ceasefire in the day was just

a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less important as the result hopefully will be peace and quiet a return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palestinians on the other side of the border but hamas claims tel aviv capitulated to its demands especially by agreeing to ease its blockade on gaza the group also showed its military prowess by sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later television capabilities that have made hamas a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government of mahmoud abbas which is why some are pointing out that israel has sent a very dangerous message to the arab world if you want to get something from israel you have to go to war policy r.t. tel aviv. while israel hailed its operation as pinpoint and says that it only targeted hamas militants refugee camps and government buildings as well as media

compounds all came under attack in gaza activist harry fear who's currently working there says that press science didn't exactly guarantee safety for journalists. gaza israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of a senior hamas commander. buried here. more than one thousand two hundred palestinians were wounded overwhelmingly children and women and over one hundred sixty seven were killed half of them civilians including journalists israel says when it targeted the top and eleventh floor of this the show building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and injured six when it struck the al could t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces started bombing our office the satellite channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was

wounded one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appear to have been deliberately assassinated. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer center belonging to the al aksa t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting it to blaze killing two and injuring several star this is what's left of the second floor of the building in central gaza city reporters without borders says that this building is known in gaza as the reporter's building. the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v.

cameramen they burned to death you're talking about when i got in yesterday near our home a car with a press logo drove past with two young men inside all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press what else can you. could see of the most popular t.v. stations in palestine israel says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera was the press was the european press with the tarka democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham. israeli airstrikes targeted media offices those targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons and the the press nor civilians at

all therefore journalists are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel says the. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out a massive infrastructure personnel and capacity gazan reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story. i was harry fair reporting from gaza there while the israeli defense forces spokesperson leibovich claim to r.t. that israel has only target hamas is going to sell us and not to general media offices . we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings hamas wisely positioned a whole system of communications and electronics for its own personal or operational work we targeted only these and tennis these communications center and

you can see an accurate hit on the roof none of the floors were targeted of course there was a little bit of. it as a result of the explosive some windows shattered and so on i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas is start getting civilians we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists there is a border to reject the roughest border it's opened do you know that every day we allow patients from gaza to get hospitalization in israel despite the rocket fire do you know that we supply electricity to gaza what other country in the world would act this way. this week the president of egypt signed a crate granting him sweeping powers that sparked mass protest and split the country security forces have fired tear gas to disperse angry demonstrators in cairo with washes opponents calling for more strikes egypt's judges have accused the president of stripping them of their authority now the opposition says it will

continue with a sit in and talk or square pledging to fight what it calls the islamic leaders power grab more say though has offended the need to create a saying that he was leading the country towards freedom and democracy but journalist often that thought they believe that military rule in egypt has simply been replaced by another kind of dictatorship. what have mohamed morsi done mobarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group they have control over their members and their supporters it is very simple and the country was more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion egyptians are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style regime of hosni mubarak into the religious fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread

freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in the revolution have been achieved the state of the egyptian o'connor me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied and not to turn it from the military to the religious fascism. well as we reported a little later on behind looks set from war protest rallies the country's main opposition group val's a defiant government ban on public gatherings despite a crackdown by police and accusations of torture that story and more for you i had a total of.

texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do to sign a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave the usa that little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are gov has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tour a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line as

a seed you should really understand what that means and what you're in for the founding fathers sure did but that's just my opinion. you know our sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. kid in sorrow. and hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in

a search for gold. why doesn't it bring them wealth. it was not the military i mean al today signed a new contract with the unit of the huge contracting. it was not the operation to secure and rebuild the devastated country caliber company field taxpayers for its contract work in iraq. it was the campaign for making billions of dollars for. reasonable and ordered bills exceed one billion dollars iraq for sale. or profiteers but on a cheap. clip. they're

watching on t.v. with me lucy catherine of e.u. leaders have lost the budget battle in brussels with a decision on their trillion euro common spending now moved to the next chair weaker members have rushed to safeguard support programs while those pouring in more cash to the european coffers are spell tightening the u.k. was among the loudest voices in favor of coughing up less as artists are for explains. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate ultimately ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders. failing to come up with

a deal that would please everyone in the budget that would take us from twenty forty to twenty twenty that person very much wanted to be seen as leading the way in calling for the cuts indeed in the lead up to the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we'd see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries . with the media these negotiations he stepped up to take birth inside an unlikely form of support for have she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that we fool happening in two thousand and eleven and so we saw those other dana countries getting behind britain in this now at the end of it the prime minister said the person didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal but of course that leaves us exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continue the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of

a deal that's acceptable to everyone but ultimately we're going to see this budget battle continuing now into the new. separatist feeling is dominating the regional lection and touch alone young people they are prepared to go for the polls over the half of the catalans are now said to want to form the new a state in europe with a desire for sovereignty being exacerbated by economic turmoil which is enter farmer explains. there's a wind of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially our spare independence it's something people here have long felt in their hearts but now they're feeling it in their pockets. i think it's a good idea to be in the band them from. a country. which is. really really bad situation it's a bargain for. it's

a bargain for the good cultural products caterham flags can be seen hanging from balconies throughout barcelona reflecting a growing desire for home rule under a drive to break away from the central government in madrid this weekend's local election is being fought on that issue alone catalan president after mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign this convergence union party to hold an independence referendum if they win and say a free catalonia would be a cure all for the region's economic problems that have seen unemployment top twenty five percent the economic context in europe and in the south of europe has been a catalyst of this. movement we can see dozens of people including a believe. with our own resources human capital economic resources we could be better off if not being in the spanish estate this is a reality that

a lot of economic research has show many cattle and find it a persuasive argument it's one of spain's wealthiest regions producing a fifth of the country's economic output but it pays around sixteen billion euros a year more in taxes than it gets back in madrid which has in turn insisted public services into austerity cuts. this is not fair i mean we are the ones who're. doing our best in an economy the reasons we cannot have all the weight of these measures and the central government for us is the one who is spending the most and not in the best way last september barcelona witnessed one of the largest separatist rallies here since the nineteen seventies over one and a half million cattle and took to the streets to call for independence but the path to becoming a new european state is far from smooth the proposed referendum is against the spanish constitution what's more withdrawing from spain could also force this

region to draw back to the european union goes against separatism believe it could do more harm than good. separatism for catalonia would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in barcelona for access to the spanish working and being in the e.u. that would be lost once more even of separatism does not happen just talking about it creates uncertainty and that is the last thing the economy needs during this current crisis. with poll suggesting after mass will win reelection barcelona and madrid look set free showdown the president this spanish military association colonel leopoldo sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war political parties dismiss that as extreme rhetoric but the remaining cattle lands in hope this weekend will mark the first step towards the break up of spain. andrew pharma the r.t. catalonia. our web site r t v dot com you can read all about the latest scandal

which is hitting all the headlines in the u.k. where children suffering are suffering from political games for grownups. that's after a foster family is torn apart after local authorities aside the parents' membership in the u.k. independence party makes them unsuitable as pairs. plus it's bought or die on line we have a video and the story is of black friday nightmares that show how so many americans who are so keen to move from thanksgiving to shopping hysteria. the opposition in bahrain has valid to resume peaceful street protests to defy a ban on public gatherings imposed last month the ruling family has claims that the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad were necessary in order to restore order a u.n. team is set to visit early december in order to assess progress towards as promised reforms and a follow up on a similar mission at the beginning of the uprising some nineteen months ago now this comes after a report by a leading human rights group which found torture and oppression were on the rise in

the country on wednesday a court had sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters there arrested last year along with more than ninety five other health care workers one of the doctors told us what happened during her detention. i was involved in treating the injured patients to us there's testers are not that doesn't really matter. as a punishment for not obeying the authorities to abandon these patients all the doctors who were involved in treating the contests or is there where i rested my sense of their sin and i was at a state of dept it from my house at three am in the morning and i was badly mistreated i lost later on after being jailed for almost two months i wish disputed try to intimate it to the court and i was sentenced for fifteen years and prison and we've at pealed the verdict we were released tonight on bail well

definitely they will not bring charges for you for treating the protest and they will come with any charges they fabricate any crimes but the main issue here is to punish those who stood in the face of the gene and disobeyed orders unfortunately as long as these dictatorship the genes are backed up by international forces and power and they're protecting them and their allies with the united states and britain who don't see any chance for us unless there is a change in the policy of the citizens of these countries. after the break on our special report on the golden breadline stay with us. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spinning black smoke over

the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also expressed amazement. at how prosperous this settlement was well times have obviously a challenge when they saw it lags say still attracting a region tourists are barons work i would then cons watch native cash that's why when bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at variance work central square that can do nine hundred eighty barons work was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe the burden

archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians try. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local seventy or shops so weak memorabilia is a big hit the defunct arne curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians doing your show but you can't play robles there on the ground you are the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure

up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic traditionally. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on those they tend to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

well our father. is the head of our family. our parents have five daughters and four sons they are tile a chimera elmira from an hour to an hour. and coach emberg journey back. and. my brother kill me is go on he is not with us anymore. back is thirty two his name means golden in the curagh good language as the youngest son in the run because of family of gold mine as tradition demands that he must live in

his parents' house but only a year ago that was his younger brother's responsibility he died this spring hill went up into the mountains and hanged himself no one knows why they rarely talk about jackie o. now he's remembered only in the press as committing suicide is considered a sin and brings shame on a family but they have no time to mourn winter is coming so they must pan for gold before the rivers freeze over. gold miners work by the riverside. he will come over to them and then make a purchase. whenever i can i exchange for food and. has taken this road from his home city of osh in southern kyrgyzstan to the remote

chut cul district many times the journey is long difficult and can be dangerous. i've covered the road from. come down to the. compared to america this is like kurdistan's alaska people don't come here unless they really have to. and elmer's certainly does have to he knows his efforts will pay off because an indian summer is the best time to buy the precious metal so miners are preparing for the coming winter they'll need money for food clothing and vodka. i simply know this area in these people. this time of year the sheep and goats return from the pastures because the rivers in those fields are the richest in gold . they've planned people head back downhill. by then they usually have about ten to fifteen grams each by a lot of the time.